 The arrival of the
mini-skirt, in the mid 1960's, heralded the first time in fashion
history that the entire leg
was exposed in day-to-day wear. Women wore miniskirts everywhere,
including
to the office. During the colder seasons, women wore high boots and
thicker stockings,
many of them with interesting patterns and textures. Eventually, maxi-coats,
with hemlines to the ankle, solved the problem of keeping warm
and
they looked fabulous over the mini. Soon, the mini would be taken to a
new extreme with the creation of the micro-mini, a skirt that was a
mere
twelve inches in length and which barely covered a woman's bottom.
Designers
capitalized on this readily accepted sexual statement.
Corporations
and businesses once opposed to a woman wearing pants or trousers to
work,
were having second thoughts.
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